[WBEL-users] quick script help

[Erick Perez]

I see i was missing the '  in the variable setup. thanks,


On Mar 31, 2005 5:28 PM, John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 11:22, Erick Perez wrote:
> 
> > i want to run a cron at certain time in the morning and that cron should:
> > 1- check for file named /var/log/mondo-archive.log
> > 2- if exists move the file to /root/backuplogs/mondo-archive.log.TODAYSDATE
> 
> Sure you aren't reinventing the wheel?  Can logrotate do what you need?
> 
> > how do i extract todays date(format MMDDYY), save it into a variable
> > and then append it to the filename
> 
> Don't have my camel book here but wouldn't $timestamp=`date +%Y%m%d` do
> the trick?  You do want yyyymmdd so directory listings will sort in date
> order right?  And lets not go repeating the Y2K mess and keep using two
> digit years again, but if you insist just make the Y a small one.  :)
> 
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